Climate change is having an uneven and adverse impacts on agriculture, water resources, energy, health, environment, and various socio-economic sectors. Studying the climate change dynamics across a broad spectrum of its negative effects to cope with climate-induced hazards has become quite significant for any country in the word. Our group primarily focuses on atmospheric issues and concerns pertinent to climate change and associated impacts on both weather and climate. The major research areas our group encompasses include monsoon dynamics, large-scale atmospheric dynamics and linked climatic impacts, global teleconnections, climate change & variability, climate extremes, climate modelling, agro-climate/agro-meteorology, downscaling of climate models, numerical weather prediction, predictability of extreme weather events, early warning systems, and remote sensing applications in hydrology/water resources.

Group administrators:

1. Muhammad Latif (Asst. Prof.)
   
   
   

   Research Interests: Monsoon dynamics, large-scale atmospheric dynamics and associated climatic impacts, climate variability and change, remote sensing, as well as regional and global climate modeling: performance evaluation & uncertainties.

   Email:  muhammad_latif@comsats.edu.pk

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5Xh-27wAAAAJ&hl=en

2. Rehan Ahmed (Asst. Prof.)
   
   
   

   Research Interests: Direct and indirect effects of changing climate on both temporal and spatial shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, as well as associated mechanisms over South-Asia.

   Email:  rehan.ahmad@comsats.edu.pk

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2WGTaWIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&authuser=1&sortby=pubdate

Group members:

1. Kalim Ullah (Chairman)
   

   Research Interests: Precipitation variability, predictability of extreme weather events, regional modeling, South Asian monsoon, and climate change.

   Email:  kalim_ullah@comsats.edu.pk

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com.pk/citations?user=W-zuVU4AAAAJ&hl=en

2. Dr. Athar Hussain (Head, CCRD)
   

   Research Interests: Geo-informatics, and global and local climate change diagnosis and attributions.

   Email:  athar.hussain@comsats.edu.pk

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Y-j5ZVkAAAAJ

3. Luqman Atique
   

   Research Interests: Atmospheric aerosols and pollution, remote sensing and GIS; land use and land cover changes, and climate change.

   Email:  luqman_atique@comsats.edu.pk

4. Sunbal Siddique
   

   Research Interests: Climate change, air pollution monitoring and public health issues, environmental chemistry, use of remote sensing techniques to monitor natural hazards.

   Email:  sunbal.siddique@comsats.edu.pk

Research Collaborators:

1. Shahzada Adnan
   

   National Drought Monitoring Centre, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Islamabad, Pakistan. (Email: shaz.adnan@gmail.com).

   Research interests: Climate change, drought, aridity, and renewable energy.

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nXDyL_QAAAAJ&hl=en

2. Muhammad Azam
   

   Department of Structures and Environmental Engineering, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University (PMAS AAUR), Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Email: muhammad.azam@uaar.edu.pk).

   Research interests: Extreme value analysis, climate change, droughts, early warning systems, and remote sensing applications on hydrology/water resources.

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Og6-NGMAAAAJ&hl=en

3. Burhan Ahmad
   

   Research and Development Division (R & D), Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Islamabad, Pakistan. (Email: burhanahmadkhan@gmail.com).

   Research interests: Climate change impacts, climate modeling, climate variability, regional climate modeling, climate dynamics, numerical weather prediction, numerical modeling, climate change, extreme events, and dynamical downscaling.

   Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2cV-guQAAAAJ&hl=en

4. Miss Amna Bibi
   

   National Drought Monitoring Centre, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Islamabad, Pakistan. (Email: aamna.met@gmail.com).

   Research interests: Climate dynamics, climate extremes, droughts, and predictability of extreme weather events.

International Research Collaborators:

1. Abdelwaheb Ben Ahmed Hannachi
   

   Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden.

2. Syed Faisal Saeed
   

   National Center for Meteorology (NCM), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

3. Dr. Amro Elfeki
   

   Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

4. Muhammad Umar
   

   Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

5. Rashid Mehmood
   

   Department of Geography, University of Montreal, Canada.

6. Ashfaq Moetasim
   

   Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA

7. Abdul Malik
   

   Department of Earth Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Recent Research Publications (2022):

1. Iqbal SW, Latif M, Ahmed R, Adnan S, Umar M, Ahmad B, Azam M, and Syed JH (2022). Performance Evaluation and Comparison of Observed and Reanalysis Gridded Precipitation Datasets over Pakistan. Theoretical and Applied
2. Imtiaz I, Umar M, Latif M, Ahmed R, and Azam M (2022) Landslide susceptibility mapping: improvements in variable weights estimation through machine learning algorithms—a case study of upper Indus River Basin, Pakistan. Environmental Earth Sciences. 81(4): 1-14.
3. Jae Eun Lee, Muhammad Azam, Saif Ur Rehman, Muhammad Waseem, M. Naveed Anjum, Arslan Afzal, M.J.M Cheema, Muhammad Mehtab, Muhammad Latif, Rehan Ahmed, Muhammad Umar, Abid Sarwar, Syed Aziz Ur Rehman (2022). Spatio-temporal variability of drought characteristics across Pakistan. Paddy and Water Environment. 20(1): 117-135.
4. Dar MA, Ahmed R, Latif M, and Azam M (2022) Climatology of dust storm frequency and its association with temperature and precipitation patterns over Pakistan. Natural Hazards. 110(1): 655-677.
5. Syed, F.S., Adnan, S., Zamreeq, A. and Ghulam, A., 2022. Identification of droughts over Saudi Arabia and global teleconnections. Natural Hazards, pp.1-21.
6. Ashraf, M., Ullah, K. and Adnan, S., 2022. Satellite based impact assessment of temperature and rainfall variability on drought indices in Southern Pakistan. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 108: 102726.
7. Adnan, S. and Ullah, K., 2022. Long-term trends in climate parameters and multiple indices for drought monitoring over Pakistan. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 134(4): 1-22.
8. Waseem, M., Jaffry, A.H., Azam, M., Ahmad, I., Abbas, A. and Lee, J.E., 2022. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Drought and Agriculture Standardized Residual Yield Series Nexuses across Punjab, Pakistan. Water, 14(3), p.496.
9. Sarwar, A.N., Waseem, M., Azam, M., Abbas, A., Ahmad, I. and Lee, J.E., 2022. Shifting of Meteorological to Hydrological Drought Risk at Regional Scale. Applied Sciences, 12(11), p.5560.
10. Lee, S., Kim, D., Maeng, S., Azam, M. and Lee, B., 2022. Runoff Reduction Effects at Installation of LID Facilities under Different Climate Change Scenarios. Water, 14(8), p.1301.